Fyodor Dostoevsky (Bird Robert)(Paperback)

Fyodor Dostoevsky (Bird Robert)(Paperback)

Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, Demons, The Idiot--the complex and prolific Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-81) is responsible for some of our greatest literary works and most fascinating characters. Praised by the likes of Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf, he is also

Notes from Underground (Dostoevsky Fyodor)(Paperback)

Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky Fyodor)(Paperback)

Crime and Punishment - Prestuplenie I Nakazanie (Russian Edition) (Dostoevsky Fyodor M.)(Paperback)

Crime and Punishement ('Prestuplenie i nakazanie') by Fyodor Dostoevsky in

Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky Fyodor)(Paperback / softback)

Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky Fyodor)(Paperback / softback)

Notes from the Underground (Dostoevsky Fyodor)(Paperback / softback)

The Idiot (Dostoevsky Fyodor)(Paperback)

The Idiot (1868), written under the appalling personal circumstances Dostoevsky endured while travelling in Europe, not only reveals the author's acute artistic sense and penetrating psychological insight, but also affords his most powerful indictment of a Russia struggling to emulate contemporary

Winter Notes on Summer Impressions (Dostoevsky Fyodor)(Paperback)

In June 1862, Dostoevsky left Petersburg on his first excursion to Western Europe. Ostensibly making the trip to consult Western specialists about his epilepsy, he also wished to see firsthand the source of the Western ideas he believed were corrupting Russia. Over the course of his journey he

Grand Inquisitor - with related chapters from The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky Fyodor)(Paperback / softback)

Crime and Punishment: A New Translation (Dostoevsky Fyodor)(Paperback)

Published to great acclaim and fierce controversy in 1866, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment has left an indelible mark on global literature and on our modern world. Declared a PBS 'Great American Read,' Michael Katz's sparkling new translation gives new life to the story of Raskolnikov, an

Notes from a Dead House (Dostoevsky Fyodor)(Paperback)

In 1849, Dostoevsky was sentenced to four years at hard labor in a Siberian prison camp for participating in a socialist discussion group. The novel he wrote after his release, based on notes he smuggled out, not only brought him fame, but also founded the tradition of Russian prison writing

Memoirs from the House of the Dead (Dostoevsky Fyodor)(Paperback)

In this almost documentary account of his own experiences of penal servitude in Siberia, Dostoevsky describes the physical and mental suffering of the convicts, the squalor and the degradation, in relentless detail. The inticate procedure whereby the men strip for the bath without removing their

Devils (Dostoevsky Fyodor)(Paperback)

As ideological ferment grips Russia, a small group of revolutionaries, led by Pyotr Verkhovensky and inspired by Nikolai Stavrogin, plan to spread destruction and anarchy throughout the country. Morally bankrupt, they are prepared to use whatever means necessary to achieve their goal, including

The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky Fyodor)(Paperback)

'Contexts' presents a wealth of background and source materials relating to The Brothers Karamazov, to Dostoevsky's own experiences, to current events, and to observations on a changing society. Included are the correspondence of influential literary and social critic Vissarion Grigorievich

Lectures on Dostoevsky (Frank Joseph)(Pevná vazba)

From the author of the definitive biography of Fyodor Dostoevsky, never-before-published lectures that provide an accessible introduction to the Russian writer's major works Joseph Frank (1918-2013) was perhaps the most important Dostoevsky biographer, scholar, and critic of his time. His

Notes from Underground (Dostoevsky Fyodor)(Paperback)

Dostoevsky's most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has

The Karamazov Brothers (Dostoevsky Fyodor)(Paperback)

Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel, The Karamazov Brothers (1880) is both a brilliantly told crime story and a passionate philosophical debate. The dissolute landowner Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is murdered; his sons--the atheist intellectual Ivan, the hot-blooded Dmitry, and the saintly novice

The Eternal Husband (Dostoevsky Fyodor)(Paperback)

During a stifling St Petersburg summer, the rich landowner Velchaninov is haunted by the figure of a man he keeps glimpsing in the street. When he receives a surprise visit from him late at night, he realizes he is an old friend, Trusotsky, whose late wife, Natalya, was his secret lover. As the two

The Double: New Translation (Dostoevsky Fyodor)(Paperback)

Constantly rebuffed from the social circles he aspires to frequent, the timid clerk Golyadkin is confronted by the sudden appearance of his double, a more brazen, confident and socially successful version of himself, who abuses and victimizes the original. As he is increasingly persecuted,

Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky Fyodor)(Paperback)

'One death, in exchange for thousands of lives - it's simple arithmetic!' A new translation of Dostoevsky's epic masterpiece, Crime and Punishment (1866). The impoverished student Raskolnikov decides to free himself from debt by killing an old moneylender, an act he sees as elevating himself above

Notes From The Underground (Dostoevsky Fyodor)(Pevná vazba)

Dostoevsky was writing at a time when Russia had reason to be optimistic, but the warning signs in his fiction perhaps leave us clues as to why Russia still has social problems today - and why, less than 40 years after Dostoevsky's death, Russia embraced Communism and destroyed the society in which

Devils (Dostoevsky Fyodor)(Paperback)

The third of Dostoevsky's five major novels, Devils (1871-2), also known as The Possessed, is at once a powerful political tract and a profound study of atheism, depicting the disarray that follows the appearance of a band of modish radicals in a small provincial town. This new translation includes

Humiliated and Insulted: New Translation (Dostoevsky Fyodor)(Paperback)

First published in 1861, Humiliated and Insulted plunges the reader into a world of moral degradation, childhood trauma, unrequited love and irreconcil-able relationships. At the centre of the story are a young struggling author, an orphaned teenager and a depraved aristocrat, who not only